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A major humanitarian group raised $500M but built only six houses
“It was one of the largest humanitarian organizations, like a bunch of big headlines came out that they raised basically like half a billion dollars and within like six years had only built, and this is not an exaggeration, I think like six houses. That's like …”
3D home printing can reduce construction costs from $6,500 to $3,000
“So right now our homes on average are about 6500 dollars per home. We believe with three D home printing, we can get that down to about 3000 dollars over time, not in the beginning, but over time,”
New Story uses 100% of public donations directly for home construction
“100% of what you give will go towards building the house. Well, it's not going to cover any of our overhead, and we do that by having a couple private donors that fund all of our overhead, like private investors, basically.”
New Story plans to open-source its 3D home printing technology
“We want to prove that in our communities and then not keep that for new story. Right? Like, not like, oh, this is RIP, like, sorry guys, like, we've got this three D printer. But then open source or democratize that with all the other nonprofits and government…”
The raw number of homes built is a vanity metric
“Cause it's not actually number of homes is a vanity metric, right? What if those homes are empty? What if those homes aren't actually better than what people were in before? What if those homes are crumbling? Right? So the impact, like what is the change in pe…”
A 3D-printed house tested three times stronger than cinder block homes
“When we tested the PSI levels, it actually came in three times stronger than our normal cinder block homes.”
New Story and ICON built the first 3D printer for remote regions
“Our printer that we've designed is a printer that's ready to work in some of the most remote areas in the world, some of the You know, most difficult to work places in the world which is the first of its kind.”
3D printing will cut home construction from 15 days to 24 hours
“So right now take about 15 days to build a house. This would be under 24 hours and then under 12 hours is the goal.”
New Story raised $1.3M within a week of its 3D-home launch
“Within the last week, we now have about, like, 1.3 million in donations.”
New Story raised $100,000 in two months to build six Haitian homes
“We got, like, a 100,000 dollars within, like a couple months. And that allowed us to use a local partner that we had already known in Haiti that had a long had a lot of experience there. Build our first six houses.”
New Story's 3D-printed home launch reached six million views
“I mean, we had, it had been like, I think like six million views now over 500 media outlets have written on it.”
Families moving into New Story homes gain three to five sleep hours
“When families move into a home they're, they increase their amount of sleep by like three to five hours.”
New Story funded 100 homes in 92 days during Y Combinator
“We did that and then actually hit a hundred homes in like 92 days. So we exceeded our goal.”
New Story's next goal is 3D printing a community in El Salvador
“Doing it in Austin is one thing. Do printing a community of homes in El Salvador is the next goal. And so we have to prove it ourselves”
New Story built a working 3D printer and house in seven months
“Last August is when we said we're going to start building this printer. We want to do it by South by Southwest in March. At that point, no printer existed, right? And not only was the printer built, but the house was built.”
New Story's first hire after Y Combinator was an impact data manager
“So actually our first hire after YC, which we had a lot of funding growth was, okay, impact, right? And so we didn't go out and hire more marketing. We didn't go out and hire more. We actually hired impact data manager that Ally can talk about.”
Families lived in 90-day temporary tents eight years after Haiti's earthquake
“And everybody was given temporary aid, right?
Which is necessary at the time,
But it was only supposed to last for, like, maybe 90 days.
and as of today, it's been almost, I mean, over eight years.
And people are still living in tents.”